X-mas/B-day upgrades

[Cab00se]

Hey everyone,
First off I guess I would like to say hello because I am returning after a hiatus, but I honestly couldn't remember my account that I used to use so I've started anew.

Ok, X-mas/my b-day are coming around fast on me and my family needs ideas.

I have two computers, one at school and one at home. The one at home is my own creation and I would love to be able to keep it but it may be falling behind.

Heres the specs.

Home:
350W PSU
AMD 2600+
1GB Corsair RAM PC2700
ATI 9600PRO
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz 5.1 Sound
120 GB Seagate HD SATA
A bunch of case mod LED fans and lights

School:
350w PS
Intel 3.4 ghz
512 RAM
x300SE ATI
160 GB SAMSUNG

Questions:
1) Is my rig at home worth trying to put more money into? I have a lot of lights and case mods that I would like to keep but I can always transfer cases with them if I scrap the computer.

2) The school computer, I want to make it a lot better for CS:S because right now its choppy. So I'm thinking about uping the GPU and RAM, I need suggestions for those and whether or not that will require a new PS.

3) Any other ideas about what hardware changes might be good for me: I play HL2, JK, and that kind of high end games.

Thank you for your help.

 

[Dilly man 2]

Home:
350W PSU
AMD 2600+
1GB Corsair RAM PC2700
ATI 9600PRO
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz 5.1 Sound
120 GB Seagate HD SATA
A bunch of case mod LED fans and lights

this should be fine, i mean if you want you could upgrade to a 3200 or something around there. and if the computer starts getting slow and you defragmented it, look into new rAM

 

[Hellbreather]

1). Yes it could be upgraded but look at question 3 for the answer to this one

2). You could do with another 512 stick for the school comp or if you can afford it then go for a 1GB stick that would be good, and with your graphics card I think it will handle CS:S perfectly, your PSU could be upgraded to 400W forextra performance

3). Upgrade your 9600PRO to possibly a 9800PRO with a 256MB Cache and maybe upgrade your RAM
If your going to upgrade your Graphics card consider a 400/450 w PSU. I have 500w but thats because I just wanted to be sure

Hope this helped.